Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature ConnectionIsland Press, 26 сент. 2012 г. - Всего страниц: 264 Sustainable design has made great strides in recent years; unfortunately, it still falls short of fully integrating nature into our built environment. Through a groundbreaking new paradigm of "restorative environmental design," award-winning author Stephen R. Kellert proposes a new architectural model of sustainability. In Building For Life, Kellert examines the fundamental interconnectedness of people and nature, and how the loss of this connection results in a diminished quality of life. This thoughtful new work illustrates how architects and designers can use simple methods to address our innate needs for contact with nature. Through the use of natural lighting, ventilation, and materials, as well as more unexpected methodologies-the use of metaphor, perspective, enticement, and symbol-architects can greatly enhance our daily lives. These design techniques foster intellectual development, relaxation, and physical and emotional well-being. In the works of architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Cesar Pelli, Norman Foster, and Michael Hopkins, Kellert sees the success of these strategies and presents models for moving forward. Ultimately, Kellert views our fractured relationship with nature as a design problem rather than an unavoidable aspect of modern life, and he proposes many practical and creative solutions for cultivating a more rewarding experience of nature in our built environment. |
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... landscapes of impervious surface, consuming enormous amounts of resources and materials, and generating huge quantities of waste and pollutants. Consequently, the modern urban environment now consumes some 40 percent of energy resources ...
... landscapes, widespread loss of natural habitats, destruction of biological diversity, climate change, and resource depletion. These trends have resulted in threats not only to human physical and material security but also to nature's ...
... landscapes that directly, indirectly, or symbolically elicit people's inherent affinity for the natural environment. This effect can be achieved through the use of natural lighting, ventilation, and materials; the presence of water and ...
... landscapes. The fourth story occurs in 2004 at a time of middle age in a midsize old industrial city in the eastern United ... landscape through a risky business venture, offering a chance for personal and environmental redemption. The ...
... landscape painting, a television program? Yes, if this contact with nature, even though experienced in indirect and sometimes symbolic ways, occurs in our routine, everyday lives. All such experiences of the nonhuman world relate if ...
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Nature and Childhood Development | 63 |
Harmonizing the Natural and Human Build Environments | 90 |
Biophilic Design | 123 |
Ethics of Sustainablilty | 178 |
Narrative Epilogue | 185 |
Notes | 219 |
Index | 243 |